Re: [linux-audio-user] Good read: James Jamerson -- Interview With The Ghost Of Studio A
24 Nov
2005
24 Nov
'05
6:21 a.m.
Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt(a)gmx.de>de>:
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 11:31, Wolfgang Woehl
wrote:
> Reading Berry Gordy's "To Be Loved" I started digging into Motown
> stuff and came across Jamerson, a bass titan. The ghost interview
> is great:
>
> http://www.bassland.net/jamerson-bp-1990.htm
Hey, wenn Du jetzt gesagt hättest "Höre in
letzter Zeit viel Motown",
dann hätte ich bestimmt gemeint "Yeah, James Jamerson, der kommt
gut."
Now that I listened again and closer to Jamerson's work some of it
sounds like black magic to me. The simple fact that he plucked all this
with his index finger exclusively makes me wanna cry really. Burkhard,
you play bass too?
Wolfgang
24 Nov
24 Nov
7:48 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Good read: James Jamerson -- Interview With The Ghost Of Studio A
On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:21, Wolfgang Woehl was like:
Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt(a)gmx.de>de>:
Great article.
Being a mere mortal I shall continue to use three fingers, however.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 11:31, Wolfgang
Woehl wrote:
Now that I listened again and closer to Jamerson's work some of it
sounds like black magic to me. The simple fact that he plucked all this
with his index finger exclusively makes me wanna cry really. Burkhard,
you play bass too? Reading Berry Gordy's "To Be Loved"
I started digging into Motown
stuff and came across Jamerson, a bass titan. The ghost interview
is great:
http://www.bassland.net/jamerson-bp-1990.htm
Hey, wenn Du jetzt gesagt hättest "Höre in letzter Zeit viel Motown",
dann hätte ich bestimmt gemeint "Yeah, James Jamerson, der kommt
gut." 
12:49 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Good read: James Jamerson -- Interview With The Ghost Of Studio A
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:48:50AM +0000, tim hall wrote:
Great article.
Being a mere mortal I shall continue to use three fingers, however.
Yeah, good one.
I've been getting by with two fingers for twenty years.
Well, thumb too.
Lotta bassists in here :)
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
1:53 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] OT Good read: James Jamerson -- Interview With The Ghost Of Studio A
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On Thursday 24 November 2005 11:21, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt(a)gmx.de>de>:
Makes me think of Dizzy Gillespie's technique of playing the trumpet. As if it
wasn't enough to just play that stuff. No, there's got to be a way to make it
even more impossible.
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 11:31, Wolfgang
Woehl wrote:
Now that I listened again and closer to Jamerson's work some of it
sounds like black magic to me. The simple fact that he plucked all this
with his index finger exclusively makes me wanna cry really. Reading Berry Gordy's "To Be Loved"
I started digging into Motown
stuff and came across Jamerson, a bass titan. The ghost interview
is great:
http://www.bassland.net/jamerson-bp-1990.htm
Hey, wenn Du jetzt gesagt hättest "Höre in letzter Zeit viel Motown",
dann hätte ich bestimmt gemeint "Yeah, James Jamerson, der kommt
gut." Burkhard,
you play bass too?
It's my favourite instrument, yes :-)
- - Burkhard
Wolfgang
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New subject: [linux-audio-user] OT Good read: James Jamerson -- Interview With The Ghost Of Studio A
Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt(a)gmx.de>de>:
How do you go about recording it? Whatever bass I record always sounds
crap, no face, no nrrrk.
Wolfgang
Makes me think of Dizzy Gillespie's technique of
playing the trumpet.
As if it wasn't enough to just play that stuff. No, there's got to be
a way to make it even more impossible.
Right, they got kicks from that I guess. Gordy writes about a session
where Jamerson wouldn't play the requested downbeat stuff but add
touches and twists all over the place. He's about to throw him out,
gives him a last chance to play straight, staring at him during the
first bars, relaxing as he hears him "behave", turns away and
-badaboom- hears an outer space lick thrown in, Jamerson all smiles,
whole studio smiles and Gordy smiles too because he can't other but
like what he just heard.
Burkhard, you
play bass too?
It's my favourite instrument, yes :-)
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